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Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of Dec. 7 - 13, 2014 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES A Stranger in My Home The true-crime series is back with new episodes. 7 p.m. Investigation Discovery Bones The forensics drama celebrates its 200th episode with a Hitchcock-inspired tale set in 1950s Hollywood. With Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz and guest star Ryan O'Neal. 8 p.m. Fox Pop Innovators Lauren Conrad ("Laguna Beach," "The Hills") is profiled in this new episode. 8 p.m. E! Gracepoint Carver and Miller (David Tennant, Anna...

Ed Nelson, a television, stage and film actor who was one of the mainstays of the 1960s prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place," died Saturday at his home in Greensboro, N.C. He was 85.
He had been in declining health with various ailments, said a...

In the long history of Oscar ceremonies, few matched the craziness, drama and poignancy of the 46th Academy Awards, which took place almost 40 years ago on April 2, 1974, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
That ceremony, hosted by writer-director John...

Ryan O’Neal testified Wednesday that an Andy Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett, the actor's longtime love, was given to him by the artist himself and is considered a family heirloom.
The 72-year-old actor took the stand for the second time in a...

Andre Agassi topped bestseller lists with his revelatory autobiography "Open." What publisher wouldn't want a fresh memoir from another tennis great?
Little, Brown scores with John McEnroe. The publisher announced Monday that it will publish...

Hollywood began to take interest in Elmore Leonard, who died Tuesday, nearly 60 years ago. But back then he wasn't writing the crime novels he became famous for; he focused on western short stories and novels.
Here's a look at some of his earliest...

Hollywood always loved Elmore Leonard. The prolific novelist-screenwriter, who died Tuesday at age 87, didn't always return the affection.
Over the course of Leonard's six-decade do-si-do with the entertainment industry, his plain-spoken prose provided...

The 2014 TCM Classic Film Festival will open April 10 with the world premiere of the new restoration of "Oklahoma!" Fred Zinnemann's 1955 classic based on the groundbreaking Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II musical.
The film, which features...

It is a stark image of the screen star, a woman whose playful smile and cascading hair made her a style icon of the 1970s and '80s.
Staring straight ahead, Farrah Fawcett's eyes are pensive, her face still.
A silk screen on canvas, the Andy Warhol...

An Andy Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett that has been the subject of a legal tussle in a Los Angeles court belongs to actor Ryan O’Neal, the star’s longtime boyfriend, a jury has found.
The panel sided with O’Neal over the University of Texas at...

A judge has tossed out a former Hollywood deal maker and banking executive’s claims that the Los Angeles police union conspired to retaliate against him for suing LAPD officers.
In an order issued this week, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner found...

A wildfire in Big Sur that has burned more than 900 acres and destroyed two dozen homes is nearly contained, with crews aided by a short burst of wintry weather on Thursday.
The Pfeiffer fire was 88% contained by Thursday night after having burned 937...

A third defendant in the robbery and killing of Border Patrol agent Robert Rosas was sentenced Thursday to a lengthy term in federal prison.
Jose Luis Ramirez-Dorantes, 46, a Mexican national, was sentenced in San Diego federal court to 55 years in...

A car fire and a fatal crash on the 405 Freeway near the Sepulveda Pass tied up the morning commute in both directions Friday as crews worked to clear the wreckage.
Only two lanes on the either side of the freeway were expected to be open until at...

A portrait of actress Farrah Fawcett created by Andy Warhol is at the center of a legal dispute that is scheduled to head to court on Wednesday. Ryan O'Neal, who had a long relationship with the late actress, is fighting the University of Texas at...

Sue Mengers, an unapologetically brash talent agent who blazed a path for women in Hollywood and represented some of its biggest stars, died Saturday night at her Beverly Hills home after a long illness. She was 79.
For two decades, Mengers was one of...

Griffin O'Neal, the son of actor Ryan O'Neal, pleaded not guilty Thursday in San Diego County Superior Court to drug and weapons charges stemming from a head-on vehicle crash. O'Neal, 40, had amphetamines, cocaine, marijuana and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax ...